Catherine Breillat Quotes
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I love what I do.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.
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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they’ll find a means to be happy.
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I doubt that even if this evidence could be upgraded to 100 per cent it would persuade the sort of people who go on self-appointed missions of mediation to Baghdad. These people further fail to see that governments now have a further responsibility to their citizens - namely to see that something is done to prevent future assaults on civilisation.
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days.
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
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Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.
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The teacher's equipment gives him an everlasting job. His work is never done. His getting ready for this work is never quite complete.
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In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.
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The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
